St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-31

Aned to her mind than his, were clearer in
spiritual f1ame. 10 toll where sacrifice was
real, to live and die in some mission of GOOD
soul. % No'
Thus they passed the ocean and at the
Drink OF the sea the vetturin0s liveried men
took them up III a grand carriage for Rome.
The narrow alley where the Rospigliosi
palace opened its arched portals was filled
with the sedan chairs of cardinals in red
cossacks, red hats and purple mantles com
ing to greet their illustrious peer and kins-
man. Hetty was treated with respect Just
mixed with patrlcian askantness, but her
heart was too full and too devoted to be SEN
sitve
''He came all red, as he will 90 all red"
she said. Must be left to idleness and re-
Election? Come, Lord, and walk thy wine
press with feet all dyed, and give me work
to don'
The aged Pope at his reception blessed
Hetty and his refractory subject, and paused
amidst the glitter of his court-all red as
blood flowing in moving COurtiers, guards
men and cardlnals-to hear the tale Of the
mountain Dunkers, who had turned out a
widow for putting red shoes upon her child.
Hetty saw the Pope kneel at scarlet-cov-
cred prie-dieu in st. Peters in a white skull
cap, red shoes and scarlet cape, surrounded
by scarlet cardinals and noble guards, and
her late husbands face seemed to her to
wear alone the halo of the blessed, pale as
knight of the Holy Sepulchre amidst all that
fiery red which made HIM look like Daniel
in the furnace
my dear friend,' she said to him, as they
took their last hours together in the palace
of his fathers, at great party, amidst old
stone-carved balusters, fountains with statu-
airy. fish pond and exotic plants, you
grow to me an almost holy thing when see
you here and remember how humbly you
hVed with me-never reproachlng me, nor
looking down upon my poverty; absenting
yourself tor years from this grandeur and
profusion; and in the sight of your restora-
ton and pain stand like the Magdelene to
wonder II upon my breast your head has in
deed been laid, and if have been worthy to
be called your friend"
"My sister, said he, "only once in thou
sand years was Nature admitted to know
this family. That was when l wandered to
America on freedom task and found heart
all sprlnkled for me with the dews of wales
and skies and tender-intoned mountains"
81 am to wear the red hat, like my people
before me, because in this part of the earth
that is thought to be the highest considera-
ton. unless"
She saw that his mind was still upon SOL
dlerlng and war.
What is that war, Jovan, you more than
half expect?'
austria, the long enemy and enslaver of
Italy, may come to blows with Lutheran
Germany if SO, Italy has one chance more,
and l have one arm left. My career lies
somewhere between the red hat and the red
cap
1T came red and it we'll go red" thought
Hetty. But what is that | see passing by
with red cross upon it? A trundle of
some quaint kind, and men and women
follow it with red crosses soWn upon their
robes"
THAT Is an ambulance and nurses badged
with the Geneva cross, which is the badge Of
the new hospital society,""
Nurses for the battle field? 0! friend
once husband let me be one of them. As
you enter the red concave, shall find task
by the red cross. That is my color; it will
lead me to my destiny"
The Italian society for the care of the
wounded became the natural refuge of
Jovans friend. He saw her no more TILL on
the battlefield Of Custozza, an officer all
scarlet was taken upon the stretcher with
one arm gone in other wars, and now his
skull and shoulder broken in. Looking up
with the last instant's intelligence, he recog-
nized in the attendant his wife. and sighed:
ut came red, darling, and so it departs"
As he spoke his brow became sufused
with his lites blood.
Hetty wiped the crimson beretta away,
and sighed:
Soldier of two nations, this red is car
dinal at last: just, prudent, steadfast, tenn
perate-such are the virtues of good car
diDals. All these were thine, Jovan.
America and Italy are free